Posts by RSchaut
A Personal Trip Down Memory Lane
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Miles Davis' "Lost Quintet"
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I'm going to start off by apologizing for not uploading a sample cut, but the shortest cut I could upload already surpasses the 15 MB Mog limit for mp3 uploads by 5 MB. I suppose I could tag one of these songs off of some album, but that would entirely defeat the point of this post.The late 60's incarnation of the Miles Davis Quintet, featuring Chick Corea on keyboards, Jack DeJohnette on drums...
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50th Anniversary
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Not mine. Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Slate's Fred Kaplan has a pretty good article on why this was such an important album, but he leaves out a key point.With the exception of Flamenco Sketches, every cut on that album was the first time the song had been played through from beginning to end. While modal playing allowed for a wider expanse for imp...
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Music Criticism
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The Mog Father put up a video today that's prompted me to write a post that's been floating around in my head for some time. David's post is about the death of music criticism, which I hope isn't the case, but there is something to be said about the difference between good music criticism and bad music criticism.A while back, I took issue with AP's Ron Harris' review of Already Free, the new al...
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SUTC: Alicia and Adam
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There are a number of factors that contributed to Alicia Keys' phenomenal success back in 2001, not the least of which was the dogged promotion given to her work by Clive Davis. That fact might lead someone like me, who regularly laments the way lesser-known yet equally, if not more, talented artists struggle to simply be heard, to dismiss her has merely the product of a music industry that has...
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Got a Fever?
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There is no dearth of singing sirens in today's jazz scene. I'm tempted to start naming a few off the top of my head, but the list is so long I'm bound to offend someone by leaving out a name or two (or, given the length of the list and the way my memory has worked as of late, a dozen or two). Every one of them has particularly endearing qualities, and it's often difficult to pick one or two out o
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Funky Friday, Riffing on Baudolino
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Here I've been racking my brain for weeks trying to find a worthy post for Funky Friday, and Buadolino was kind enough to point me to Mavis Staples. That jogged a long lost memory back in the deep, dark recesses of my brain.The likely reason this was such a deep, dark memory is that the Staples weren't exactly known for playing funky music, though their music did acquire a definite funky flavo...
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SUTC Twofer: Angel from Montgomery
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